Brenna Lewis, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Heartland Inns of America, L.L.C., doing business as Heartland Inn Ankeny; Barbara Cullinan; Kristi Nosbisch, individually and in their corporate capacities, Defendants-Appellees., 591 F.3d 1033

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The employee alleged that she lost a job she had done well, solely because of unlawful sex stereotyping. The instant court found that evidence that the employer's reason for the termination were pretextual included the fact that the employee had a history of good performance at the employer. The employee had no prior disciplinary record and had received two merit based pay raises. The two individuals who supervised the employee during the majority of her employment at the employer both stated that they had no problem with her appearance, and at least one customer had never seen customer service like that the employee had provided. The instant court also found that the employee offered sufficient evidence from which a reasonable factfinder could find that she was discriminated against because of her sex. An employer who discriminated against women because they did not wear dresses or makeup, was engaging in sex discrimination because the discrimination would not occur but for the ...